As pharaoh, Hatshepsut faced a religious and political reality: kingship was a male role. To be accepted, she adopted the ...

American writers misleadingly interpreted Egypt's past to argue that slavery was a divinely sanctioned institution ...

Researchers have long speculated about the purpose and meaning of pointy “head cones” depicted in Egyptian art. Now they’ve ...

Sobek, crocodile-headed god of the Nile; Sekhmet, leonine goddess of war; Anubis, jackal god of the underworld; and Hathor, mother goddess with a cow’s horns: The ancient Egyptian pantheon of gods was ...

Ancient Egyptian kingship was rooted in royal blood passed through women. This explores how myth, religion, and lineage ...

Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose bestselling books about the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations ...

On the other hand, the beard is more than a reflection of age or physical development; it’s a symbol of masculinity and all ...

Wedding traditions are rooted in superstition, religion and cultural exchange, even as couples continue to reinterpret them ...